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Jack London's famous short story, bought to the screen in its purest form.----Narrated by Orson Welles
Jack London's short story, narrated by Orson Welles and filmed with complete fidelity to London's graphic narrative, could be called a screen short story in its purest form.
As Orson Welles reads the tale, in his inimitable fireside style, the camera follows a lone man traveling through the great Alaskan wilderness in seventy-five degrees below zero weather.The stark realism of the chilling images combined with the power of Orson Welles' reading fills the viewer with an awesome admiration for the story's courageous hero.The visuals add a new dimension to London's prose and the viewer feels the icy cold to an extent that reaches far beyond the power of words alone.This chilly discomfort provides a tense background for the suspense which is to come as the man attempts to build the fire he must have in order to survive.
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